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At my work we all use google meets and only zoom for some external customers, the experience seems to be much worse with zoom in general regardless of the OS I
by danieldk 5y ago
At my work we all use google meets and only zoom for some external customers, the experience seems to be much worse with zoom in general regardless of the OS
I strongly disagree. Zoom on macOS and macOS works very well (I currently use it for a remote course). My experiences have been far far better than Teams, Google Meet, Skype, Jitsi etc. Most of which I have had to use for work or private. My wife is hoping that her employer will relent sometime and offer Zoom, because she prefers it so much over Google Meet, whatever Blackboard uses, etc.
It could be that your experience is colored by the Zoom web interface, which I only used once on Linux and it was terrible then.
I haven't used HiDPI monitors on linux yet, being able to use linux easily is more important to me for dev, it's a known area of weakness, and I just don't need the extra pixels for dev so it's easier to just avoid it.
For me it's one of those things that can't be unseen. I have happily used lo-DPI screens for decades, but since I can't really stand lo-DPI screens anymore since I had my first retina MacBook. Even though I am doing development 80% of the time, I want my fonts to be crisp.
If you can get away with a browser, then it's not bad at all... and when there is an option for a native version, use the browser, because usually it's some horrific electron thing that's even worse.
I guess that's true on Linux. Unfortunately, very few web apps beat native applications like OmniGraffle, the Affinity Suite, or even PowerPoint.
- tomxor 5y agook, but all of your use cases and priorities are so far away from the original premise of the article that's it's clear your needs are more inline with a regular mac or windows user than a "hacker" or dev... (just saying) it's not for everyone. Also which video conferencing app "is the worst" seems to be pretty subjective, but tbh they are all pretty crappy and replaceable, i'm not really sure what this has to do with OS choice.